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LOCAL LAW 196 OF 2017 ANNUAL REPORT

October 2019



BACKGROUND

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This annual report has been prepared pursuant to Local Law 196 of 2017 (“Local Law

196”), which was passed by the New York City Council on September 27, 2017 and

signed by the Mayor on October 16, 2017.

When fully phased-in on September 1, 2020, Local Law 196 will require that certain

workers at certain job sites receive 40 hours of safety training and that supervisors

receive 62 hours of safety training.

The job sites to which Local Law 196 is applicable are sites that are required to

designate a Construction Superintendent, Site Safety Coordinator or Site Safety

Manager.

The workers and supervisors to which Local Law 196 is applicable are workers and

supervisors who engage in construction or demolition work at the aforementioned sites.


MAJOR IMPLEMENTATION MILESTONES

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Local Law 196, as amended by Local Law 119 of 2019, phases-in site

safety training requirements in three parts:

o By March 1, 2018 workers were required to have a minimum of 10

hours of training.

o By December 1, 2019 workers will be required to have a minimum

of 30 hours of training and supervisors will be required to have 62

hours of training.

o By September 1, 2020 workers will be required to have 40 hours of

training.


OUTREACH

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Leading up to the first and second major implementation milestones, March 1, 2018 and

December 1, 2019, the Department has performed and continues to perform extensive

outreach to stakeholders to ensure that information about the site safety training

requirements reaches those who need it. Such outreach includes:

o Visiting Construction Sites. For several months, the Department’s inspectorial units

have been distributing palm cards in multiple languages directly to workers. The

Department’s Community Engagement Unit has started distributing palm cards as

well, visiting 500 sites the week of September 9th alone. This work will continue

through September 1, 2020. To date, the Department has distributed nearly 57,000

palm cards in thirteen different languages.

o Direct mailings. The Department has conducted multiple mailings to both permit

holders and site safety professionals. The mailings to permit holders inform such

permit holders that site safety training is required for work that is conducted under

their permit. The mailings to site safety professionals, including Construction

Superintendents, Site Safety Coordinators, Site Safety Managers and Concrete

Safety Managers, remind them that they must have 62 hours of training by

December 1, 2019.


OUTREACH (CONTINUED)

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o Creating Online Tools.

• Website Updates. The Department has reorganized its website to create

content specific to workers, supervisors, employers and course providers.

• Site Safety Construction Map. The Department created a Site Safety

Construction Map, which identifies the sites throughout New York City where

site safety training is required. This map allows workers to search the job

sites where they currently work or where they plan to work to confirm whether

the training is required at such sites.

• Course Provider Map. The Department created a Course Provider Map, which

identifies the course providers who offer site safety training throughout New

York City. Additionally, workers can find out what languages are supported by

course providers who offer training.

o Information Sessions. Since the enactment of Local Law 196, the Department has

hosted eighteen information sessions to inform the public about the site safety

training requirements. These information sessions were attended by more than

1,000 members of the public.


OUTREACH (CONTINUED)

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o Service Notices. Since the enactment of Local Law 196, the Department has issued at

least a dozen Service Notices that provide information to the public regarding the

implementation of Local Law 196. These Service Notices are distributed widely, including

through Buildings News, our electronic newsletter with a circulation of more than 50,000.

o Advertising. The Department is running 1,000 subway ads and multilingual

advertisements in 30 community newspapers through the end of the year. Additionally,

advertisements will appear on bus stop shelters and LinkNYC kiosks beginning this

month. These ads will be focused on making the public aware of the upcoming December

1, 2019 implementation milestone. The Department also ran television and radio

commercials throughout the summer of 2019.

o Rulemaking. The Department promulgated a rule to require worker information signs

within construction sites that provide information to workers about site safety training in

all languages spoken at the site.

o Social Media. The Department has been posting Local Law 196 updates on Social Media

regularly and will continue doing so through September 1, 2020.


SITE SAFETY CONSTRUCTION MAP

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https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/site-safety-construction-map.html


COURSE PROVIDER MAP

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https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/buildings/html/course_providers.html


ADVERTISING

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WORKER INFORMATION SIGNS

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SITE SAFETY TRAINING CARDS

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Through September 2019, course providers have issued 28,203 Site Safety

Training Cards. This includes:

Additionally, course providers have issued 67,335 OSHA 10 and 27,212 OSHA 30

cards since 2015, which may all be applied towards a Site Safety Training Card.

This number does not account for the OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 cards that workers

have received from OSHA-authorized trainers who are not approved by the

Department. For the purposes of December 1, 2019 training deadline, an OSHA

30 card will serve as acceptable proof that a worker has received required

training.

Type of Card Number of Cards Issued

Temporary SST Card 1,914

Limited SST Card 12,586

Full SST Card 7,350

Supervisor SST Card 6,353


SITE SAFETY TRAINING COURSE PROVIDERS

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There are 67 course providers offering site safety training courses. Each course

provider is offering multiple courses:

Title of Course Providers Offering Course

8-Hour Fall Prevention 65

2-Hour Drug and Alcohol

Awareness

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2-Hour ‘Tool Box’ Talks 47

4-Hour Fall Prevention 47

2-Hour Pre-Task Meeting 46

4-Hour Supported Scaffold User

& Refresher

45

2-Hour Site Safety Plan (SSP) 45


SITE SAFETY TRAINING COURSE PROVIDERS (CONTINUED)

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8-Hour Site Safety Manager

Refresher / Chapter 33

45

1-Hour Stairways and Ladders 44

1-Hour Tools-Hand and Power 43

1-Hour Confined Space Entry 42

1-Hour Fire Protection and

Prevention

40

1-Hour Personnel Lifts/Aerial

Lifts/Scissor Lifts Safety

38

1-Hour Flag Person 37

1-Hour Materials Handling,

Storage, Use, and Disposal

36



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1-Hour Electrocution

Prevention

36

1-Hour Handing Heavy

Materials and Proper Lifting

Techniques

35

1-Hour Asbestos/Lead

Awareness

35

1-Hour Health and Safety

Programs in Construction

34

1-Hour Job Hazard Analysis 33

1-Hour Welding and Cutting 33

1-Hour Protection from Sun

Exposure

31



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1-Hour Hoisting and Rigging 31

1-Hour First Aid and CPR 31

1-Hour Scaffolds-Suspended 30

1-Hour Concrete and Masonry

Construction

30

1-Hour Ergonomics 29

1-Hour Risk Assessment and

Accident Investigation

29

2.5-Hour Foundations of Safety

Leadership

29

1-Hour Cranes, Derricks, Hoists,

and Conveyors

28



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1-Hour Excavations 28

1-Hour Demolition Safety 27

1-Hour Motor Vehicles,

Mechanized Equipment and

Marine Operations; Rollover

Protective Structures and

Overhead Protection; and

Signs, Signals and Barricades

27

1-Hour Repetitive Motion

Injuries

26

1-Hour Steel Erection 24


SITE SAFETY TRAINING COURSE PROVIDER AUDITS

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The Department is performing both course audits and training provider

administrative audits.

o Course audits include investigators auditing courses as they are being

held, ensuring courses are the proper length, checking sign-in logs for

accuracy, and recording the names of trainers and attendees to compare

against training providers’ records. To date, the Department has

performed 16 course audits.

o Training provider administrative audits include ensuring that course

providers are maintaining appropriate records, keeping the credentials of

instructors on hand, utilizing an electronic database to track and readily

validate training records upon the request of the Department, and that

providers are issuing Site Safety Training cards acceptable to the

Department. To date, the Department has performed 45 training provider

administrative audits.


ENFORCEMENT

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Last year, the Department created a new unit, the Construction Safety Compliance

(CSC) Unit, which is dedicated to performing proactive safety compliance inspections.

The CSC Unit inspects active construction sites, reviews construction Site Safety Plans,

and enforces site safety training requirements. Since September 2018, when the CSC

Unit launched, the CSC Unit has conducted nearly 20,000 inspections at nearly 10,200

unique sites. Nearly 15,000 or 75% of inspections required no enforcement actions by

the Department. The Department has issued 11,233 violations and 2,470 Stop Work

Orders to the sites that did not pass inspection.

The CSC Unit is also responsible for enforcing Local Law 196. Through September

2019, the Department has found that 97% of jobsites visited are in compliance with

Local Law 196. The Department found 229 jobsites where a total of 504 construction

workers did not have required site safety training. The Department has issued 2,202

violations and 229 Stop Work Orders to the sites where workers did not have required

site safety training. The Department has also made 50 referrals to the New York City

Department of Investigation where it has found workers who possess fraudulent OSHA

cards or where there have been allegations of suppliers of fraudulent OSHA cards.


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Documents

LOCAL LAW 196 OF 2017 ANNUAL REPORT · • Site Safety Construction Map. The Department created a Site Safety Construction Map, which identifies the sites throughout New York City